About Jen Gubitz
With her humor and insight, Rabbi Jen Gubitz builds communities and content that elevate Jewish wisdom’s capacity to speak to our human condition.
Jen is the co-host of the OMfG Podcast: Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times and her writing appears in the Los Angeles Times, Romper, Boston Globe, OnBeing, Jewish Daily Forward, and Lilith Magazine.
With over 15 years of experience in Jewish professional life, Jen is a graduate of Indiana University and was ordained in 2012 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (NY) where she was a Tisch Rabbinical Fellow. She trained in chaplaincy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and wrote her thesis on Jewish death education for children. Jen completed an intensive certificate in Family Systems Therapy through Therapy Training Boston.
Jen is the founder of Modern JewISH Couples, which supports couples on the pathway to marriage and beyond. She also serves part-time as a Rabbi at Temple Shalom of Newton.
With her humor and insight, Rabbi Jen Gubitz builds communities and content that elevate Jewish wisdom’s capacity to speak to our human condition.
Jen is the co-host of the OMfG Podcast: Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times and her writing appears in the Los Angeles Times, Romper, Boston Globe, OnBeing, Jewish Daily Forward, and Lilith Magazine.
With over 15 years of experience in Jewish professional life, Jen is a graduate of Indiana University and was ordained in 2012 by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (NY) where she was a Tisch Rabbinical Fellow. She trained in chaplaincy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and wrote her thesis on Jewish death education for children. Jen completed an intensive certificate in Family Systems Therapy through Therapy Training Boston.
Jen is the founder of Modern JewISH Couples, which supports couples on the pathway to marriage and beyond. She also serves part-time as a Rabbi at Temple Shalom of Newton.
OMfG Podcast
Jewish Wisdom for Unprecedented Times
co-hosted by Jen and Rabbi Jodie Gordon
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OMfG, what a wonderful four letter word. Those four letters can say so much in so little time, whether expressing joy or grief, excitement or disappointment, delight and sorrow, impatience or urgency - truly the breadth of human experience.
As rabbis, we know that when the stories of our lives meet the stories of Jewish tradition, transformation / growth / something awesome occurs. Apple Podcast, Spotify, Anchor |
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Published Writings
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“Dividends of Meaning: Jewish Rituals for the Financial Lifecycle” Creating a Jewish Money Ethic: The Sacred Exchange: CCAR Challenge and Change, 2019
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“Chayei Sarah:
M’nuchat HaNefesh” A Mussar Torah Commentary: A Spiritual Path to Living a Meaningful and Ethical Life, December 2019 |
“Good Grief: Helping Jewish Children Live with Death”
CCAR Journal, Winter 2014 |
"Grief and Grounds for Hope" Remember and Do Not Forget: Rabbinic Testimonies of January 6, 2021: A Horrific Day in American History
Foreward, Morning, Noon, and Night, Poetry in the Language of Time, by Rabbi Evan Schultz
Foreward, Morning, Noon, and Night, Poetry in the Language of Time, by Rabbi Evan Schultz
- Our embryos aren't children, but I wish they were, Lilith Magazine
- What if Shammai was Right? as shared by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
- Amazon is Sold Out of Sackcloth, Lilith Magazine
- With this grief, I thee wed: How to celebrate a wedding after a loved one dies, Los Angeles Times
- Remaking Jewish Weddings, Judaism Unbound Podcast
- How to Make Yom Kippur Meaningful Even if You Don't Fast, JewishBoston.com
- Becoming BMitzvah, ReformJudaism.org
- A Mother's Day Garden of Grief, Romper
- Always a Rabbi, One Day a Bride, Boston Globe Magazine
- Our Rabbis, Our Heroes, Jewish Daily Forward
- Incremental Change By the Light of the Moon, JewishBoston.com
- Grief, Weddings; Open First, Lilith Blog
- Debbie Friedman Helped Me Find My Voice, Lilith Blog
- A Chanukah Heroine, JewishBoston.com
- Why Did(n’t) the Funeral Procession Cross the Road, Lilith Magazine and Blog
- When 2020 Vision is Blurred: Young Adult Peer Leadership Model for Uncertain Times, EJewishPhil
- Emergent Communities & Legacy Institutions Investing Together, EJewishPhilanthropy
- Vaccinate Us, A Prayer for Healing Hate, ReformJudaism.org
- Kaddish for Pittsburgh, JewishBoston.com
- A Prayer for Assaulted Bodies and Souls, JewishBoston.com
- Interfaith Acceptance Has A PR Problem, Jewish Daily Forward
- To Whom Will You Write, The On Being Project
- Redemptive Remembrance, Ritualwell
- Selected Sermons and Writing, Substack
Mentions of Jen in the news:
- How to Talk to Kids about Death, Tablet Magazine
- Creating a Radically Inclusive Jewish Community, JewishBoston.com
Services
Jen is available to support you through life cycle events including weddings, baby namings and funerals.
She teaches and consults on areas including:
young adult engagement, supporting interfaith families, congregational innovation,
storytelling, songleading & Mussar learning
She teaches and consults on areas including:
young adult engagement, supporting interfaith families, congregational innovation,
storytelling, songleading & Mussar learning
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